The Oxford Centre for Global Health Research brings together internationally recognised Oxford-based academic groups, networks and consortia that address major public health issues with partners across the globe. The Oxford Centre for Global Health Research is also the base for postgraduate studies in Tropical Medicine and International Health at DPhil and MSc levels.
The Oxford Centre for Global Health Research is an Oxford-based programme allied to the Africa and Asia Programmes (AAP) within The Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (CTMGH).
The Oxford Centre houses world-leading infectious disease, public health and health systems research and knowledge sharing initiatives that have a direct policy and practice impact. It complements the wider CTMGH which, through Africa and Asia Programmes (AAP) that are the result of over 30 years of collaboration with LMICs, have a unique assembly of research in infectious diseases spanning fundamental biology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment as well as in mathematical modelling, geospatial epidemiology, research in the community, health economics, health systems and research ethics.
We collaborate widely with strong international partnerships beyond the AAP while housing the administrative teams for the entire CTM&GH. We offer DPhil training in a wide variety of global health areas, a highly successful MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine supported by teaching from AAP researchers, and plan to launch a new MSc in Global Health Modelling in 2021.
Download our introduction leaflet (PDF)
Download our brochure Building a Global Health Community (PDF) - download an accessible version (PDF without images)
Our research has the overarching goal of improving the health of the most vulnerable by:
- Advancing equitable international research collaborations and mutual learning, especially through training and capacity building
- Promoting research links across Oxford’s Divisions and Schools to foster multi-disciplinary research, and provide LMIC partners, students and alumni, and UK scientists with opportunities to develop their skills
- Providing a vibrant academic 'home' in Oxford that offers training, meeting and office space to promote engagement with scientists from the AAP and other collaborations
- Developing opportunities and environment for LMIC and UK scientists to develop their global health research careers
- Better communicating with policy makers and the public about the science conducted across the CTMGH
The Oxford-based research groups are working on six mutually reinforcing themes:
- Tackle current and emerging threats to health, for example, infections, AMR, sub-standard medicines and health system weaknesses
- Promote improvements in research practice so that trials and studies produce better data to enable data sharing and harness the power of secondary analyses
- Share existing knowledge and offer training with global reach to address needs, and provide young researchers with the foundation they need to launch successful careers
- Examine how countries can implement effective and evidence-based practices, technologies and innovations to improve health
- Enhance policy links, as the UK aims to pursue a new more outward looking global agenda, and public engagement strategies to build understanding
- Conduct applied research to strengthen health and research systems, through comparative research, health service redesign, effective governance and appropriate ethical oversight
Download our Themes brochure (PDF). This brochure describes the various themes underlying research at OCGHR: Better data and evidence, Innovation and implementation, Sharing knowledge and strengthening capacity, Enhancing policy and practice, Strengthening healh and research systems
Over the past decade, Oxford-based research has grown, mostly with researchers returning from the AAP to pursue research from a UK base. The Centre in Oxford has provided a flexible approach to establish research groups:
- The Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx)
- The Epidemic Research Group in Oxford (ERGO) that also houses the International Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Collaboration (ISARIC)
- The Global Health Network (TGHN)
- The Infectious Disease Data Observatory (IDDO) that also houses the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN)
- The Health systems collaborative (HSC)
- The Medicines Quality Group (Medicine Quality)
- The Tropical Immunology Group
- The Drug-Resistant Infectious and Disease Dynamics group (DRIaDD)
- The Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial consumption and burden estimation (MICRoBE)
- A collaboration with the Ethox Centre in Oxford
OCGHR members
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Zainab Al-Rawni
Digital Communications Coordinator (TGHN)
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Brian Angus
Professor and Reader in Infectious Diseases
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Proochista Ariana
Associate Professor
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Carine Asnong
IHTM Teaching Associate
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Kenneth Baillie
Professor of Experimental Medicine
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Holly Blades
Senior Project Manager
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Josie Bourner
ISARIC Clinical Trial Manager
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Matthew Brack
IDDO Senior Programme Manager
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Gemma Buck
IDDO Data Manager
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Erhui Cai
ERGO DPhil candidate
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Celine Caillet
Research scientist, Pharm D, PhD
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Gail Carson
Director of Network Development, ISARIC
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Barbara Citarella
Data Manager
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Ben Cooper
Professor of Epidemiology
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Prabin Dahal
Research Fellow
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Adam Dale
Project Officer
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Debashish Das
WWARN Malaria Researcher
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Alun Davies
Public Engagement
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Michael Deats
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
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Emmanuelle Denis
ERGO Senior Operations Manager
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Christiane Dolecek
Associate Professor
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Sam Driver
Digital Resources Manager
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Susanna Dunachie
Professor of Infectious Diseases
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Jake Dunning
Senior Researcher
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Mike English
Professor of International Child Health
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Paula Feery
IDDO Head of Communications
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Freddie Fell
Data Analyst
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Sebastian Fuller
Senior Postdoctoral Social Scientist
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Bo Gao
Research Fellow
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Annelies Gillesen
ERGO Clinical Research Nurse
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Philippe Guérin
Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health
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Dan Haggarty
Business Manager
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Morategi Kale
AfOx student engagement liaison
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Christelle Kervella-Jones
Research Manager for ERGO
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Jolyon Harris
Senior Operations and Development Manager
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Lara Hartley
PA
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Peter Horby
Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Nina Jamieson
Senior Capacity Development Manager
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Caroline Jones
Associate Professor
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Nzelle Delphine Kayem
UK Commonwealth PhD Scholar
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Kalynn Kennon
IDDO Head of Data Engineering
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Trudie Lang
Professor of Global Health Research
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James Lee
Senior Clinical Trials Manager
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Cherry Lim
Post-doctoral researcher
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Muriel Lunn
ERGO Administration Assistant
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Michuki Maina
Research Paediatrician
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Anne Makena
Programme Coordinator
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Chimwemwe Manyozo
Communication Officer
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Kevin Marsh
Professor of Tropical Medicine
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Vicki Marsh
Associate Professor
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Pavel Matousek
Visiting Professor
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Rosie Mazhar
Researcher–Implementation Science of critical care for COVID- 19 in East Africa
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Jacob McKnight
Senior researcher
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Barney McManigal
Senior Communications and Public Engagement Officer
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Aronrag Meeyai
Co-lead for Paradigms and Tools for Global Health module
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Jonathan Menary
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Laura Merson
IDDO Associate Director
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Shobhana Nagraj
Postdoctoral Clinical Researcher in Global Children's Health
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Roger Nascimento
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Paul Newton
Professor of Tropical Medicine
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Alistair Nichol
Professor of Critical Care Medicine
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Alice Norton
Scientific Manager- GloPID-R
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Jacquie Oliwa
Researcher
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Dorothy Oluoch
Research Fellow
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Piero Olliaro
Professor of Poverty Related Infectious Diseases
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Chris Paton
Head of the Global Health Informatics Group
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Andrew Payne
IDDO Informatics Coordinator
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Caitlin Richmond
WWARN Programme Manager
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Gisela Robles Aguilar
Global Burden of Disease Researcher
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Yurika Sakai
IDDO Data Manager
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Alex Salam
Specialist Registrar in Infectious Disease and General Internal Medicine
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Benn Sartorius
Senior Geospatial Infectious Disease Modeler and Global Health Epidemiologist
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Alex Segrt
Head of Digital Platform and Communications (TGHN)
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Kehkashan Shah
Training Assistant (TGHN)
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Taniya Sharmeen
Research Scientist
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Tiffany Shumaker
Research Grants Assistant
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Louise Sigfrid
ERGO Clinical Research Fellow
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Niamh Simpson
Academic Programme Officer - MSc MGH
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Kasia Stepniewska
IDDO Head of Statistics
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Samantha Strudwick
IDDO Data Manager
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Olga Tosas-Auguet
Senior Scientist
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Lien Tran
IDDO Research Assistant
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Ranitha Vongpromek
IDDO/WWARN SML & EQA Coordinator
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David Warrell
Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine
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Bridget Wills
Professor of Tropical Medicine
Africa and Asia Programmes (AAP)
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